• View of the sea under a bright blue sky, with white wind turbines on the horizon. In the foreground, green fields and a stone wall.”
    Disability & Identity,  Nature & Symbolism

    Out Of Reach

    I sit on my mobility scooteron Traeth Gele, watching waves roll infrom Liverpool Bay. The wind finds its rhythm—steady, unseen—turning blades on the horizon,white giantsharvesting what can’t be held. Nature,translated into energy. I sit there,watching,listening, as words come flying out of my mouth—too fast, too many—scattering like spray. I reach for them,try to catch each one,but they slip through— and I can’t hold them all. My words tumble and crashlike waves against the shore. They break on rocks I didn’t choose,scatter into pieces I try to gatherwith hands that don’t always dowhat I ask of them. I collect what I can—fragments, edges, almosts—but the picture never comes togetherthe way people…

  • A colourful patchwork quilt made from many different patterned fabric pieces, forming heart shapes across the design.
    Emotion & Expression,  Life & Reflection,  Society & Injustice

    Who Gives a Crap?

    Author’s note: This one wasn’t planned.It just came out—somewhere between frustration with the world and trying to hold myself together within it.There’s a line in here that’s very real, and a moment I didn’t expect to share—but it felt important to leave it in.Sometimes we carry more than people realise.And sometimes, it only takes a voice from the past to unravel everything. Who gives a crap? Who gives a crap about some orange-tinted “Master Chief”playing war like it’s Halo?Everybody – or so it seems. Who gives a crap about the ongoing battle in Ukraine,still quietly burning in the background?Nobody – the algorithm moved on.Slava Ukraine. Who gives a crap about…

  • A blurred hospital corridor with medical staff in blue and white uniforms moving quickly, creating a sense of motion. A lift is visible at the end of the hallway.
    Emotion & Expression,  Life & Reflection,  Uncategorized

    Are You OK? 

    “Are you OK?” asked the nurse, as machines hummed and lights glared. The patient, yellow-tinged, weary, lay silent while the world hurried around her — fluids, paracetamol, antibiotics, needles and scans, the mystery of illness written in her blood. And what of her husband? Inside: fear, exhaustion, despair. Outside: armour of calm, the warrior, the rock at her bedside. Is he OK? She is not ordinary — if such a word belongs to anyone. Her body a puzzle of conditions that weave together into fragility, into fight. Is she OK? Days blur into nights. Corridors become home, moved from ward to ward, sleep fractured by monitors’ beeps, by rubies of…

  • Disability & Identity

    Life Sentence

    A learning disability—a life sentence, they say,Hear me out, let me explain the way.   Life’s not a box, but for many like me,It’s four tight walls, no space to be free.   No places to go, no people to see, Confidence shattered, no self-belief.   The world moves fast—9 to 5,But we just want to feel alive.   We want to Stay Up Late, to break the mold,Yet mountains stand, high and cold.   We climb, we push, but there’s only so far,Without a guide, without a star.   A Gig Buddy won’t fix it all,But they’re the hand to catch our fall.   A friend to walk beside, not ahead,To lift our spirits, not leave…

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